It would be another few years before he began to sport the flashier Gladiator/Maximus-fashioned guise.Īll told, Fondle ’Em put out three separate DOOM 12”s from ’97 to ’98, each making DOOM more and more of an underground sensation. He took the piece of WWF merchandise, associated with the wrestler Kane, and spray-painted it silver. Furthermore, DOOM changed his rhyme flow from upbeat and peppy to a heavy, drunken slur.īack then, DOOM wore a store-bought mask. These 12”s contained dusty, unpolished tracks, with all of the lo-fi studio hiss and grime still dripping from it. Starting in 1997, DOOM began crafting his new material through Fondle ’Em Recordings, an ultra-indie imprint created by Bobbito Garcia, then one of the foremost champions of underground hip-hop. He proclaimed that he was “scarred” forever by his initial experiences in the music industry, and now was forced to cover his face to hide the damage. DOOM began to fashion his “character” in the mold of Victor Von Doom himself. There are stories of DOOM resurfacing on stage during the mid-’90s rocking a stocking mask, a la Ghostface Killah in ’92 and ‘93. Zev Love X didn’t emerge with his metal-faced visage overnight. Once known as the relatively carefree Zev Love X, a member of the group KMD, he retreated to the metaphorical shadows after music industry shenanigans and the death of his brother, Dingilizwe “Subroc” Dumile. ![]() Which makes Operation: Doomsday, released 20 years ago, his Fantastic Four #236 (1981), a memorable and perfectly crafted re-introduction. DOOM has earned his legendary status by executing one of the best and most unlikely reinventions for an emcee. And like many great supervillain origins, it’s one born out of tragedy. MF DOOM has become as familiar as the origin of the supervillain that inspired him. And in today’s bland commercial Rap universe, Operation Doomsday’s left-of-center beats and rhymes are the perfect remedy.Happy 20th Anniversary to MF DOOM’s debut album Operation: Doomsday, originally released October 19, 1999.įittingly, the origin of Daniel Dumile a.k.a. The comic-book themed skits, will help take you deep into the mind of an MC who is as otherworldly as they come. Doom’s avant-garde ghetto-rhyme philosophies take even more intentionally weird twists on “Tick, Tick.” where he and guest MC MF Grimm’s flows warble over a rhythm track whose tempo speeds up and slows down continually. ![]() Who You Think I Am? features DOOM‘s crew M.onster I.sland C.zars, while on “?” he trades hot verses with former Columbia artist Kurious Jorge. On arguably the best track, “Rhymes Like Dimes,” Doom weaves some pointed lyrics through his abstract wordplay, spitting ‘only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck / And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.’ This 19-cut deep album is ridiculously dope, in a bizarro Ol’ Dirty Bastard kind of way.ĭoom sounds either high or drunk on most of the tracks, his self-produced beats are gritty, and his rhyme styles are almost indecipherable. After KMD (his first group)’s 1994 sophomore album Bl_ck B_st_rds was shelved by Elektra in 1994 and his blood brother Subroc (one half of the sibling rap duo) passed away, surviving frontman Zev Love X mutated into the MC Avenger known as MF DOOM and the Rap world is better for it. Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF DOOM hides the cachet underground legends are made of. Remastered from the original Fondle 'Em 1999 issue. The long awaited reissue of DOOM's first solo gem, Operation: Doomsday.
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